I launched those utilities manually and played around with the different audio channels in the gstreamer utility, and I seem to have found the problem. I technically have 2 audio out devices: the sound system on my motherboard and the HDMI output for my video card. It's using my motherboard's sound for output, and both the volume applet and pulse volume control utility adjust that output channel, but for some reason the media keys were controlling the volume of my video card's HDMI output. From gnome-volume-control.pulse I was able to disable my video card's HDMI output and the media keys now effect the correct output channel.
Thanks for the help, Aaron 2009/12/9 Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> > Le mardi 08 décembre 2009 à 22:59 -0800, Aaron Barany a écrit : > > Whenever I try to adjust the volume via the multimedia volume keys, a > > popup dialog shows the volume changing, but the change isn't reflected > > in the volume applet, sound preferences, or sound coming out of the > > speakers. It is as if it's editing a completely different sound > > channel. I'm using pulseaudio. > > Does it work with if you launch gnome-volume-control.gstreamer by hand? > Same question for gnome-volume-control.pulse. > > Thanks, > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in > `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling >
